9 Dec, 2015 | Uncategorised
Today I made Nigella’s chocolate brownies as thank you gift. But they went wrong. Actually whenever I have made them, and I’ve made them numerous times, they’ve always gone wrong. Nigella specifies that they should be cooked for 25 minutes and...
8 Dec, 2015 | Uncategorised
I have been a devotee of Nigella Lawson’s writing for years, since way before her cookery books, when she wrote a column for the London Evening Standard. I have most of her books (Domestic Goddess and Feat are my favourites) and I have written before on this...
14 Nov, 2015 | Uncategorised
I can add nothing about the outrage that took place in Paris last night. It is a gloomy, rainy, windy day, archetypically November. MsDD has gone off to play at a Music Conference in Daventry, which she’ll follow with pizza and a film at a friend’s...
4 Nov, 2015 | Uncategorised
Flapjacks. The healthy option…NOT. Goodness, the amount of butter in them alone is enough to make your eyes pop. Delicious, though, and I had a sneaky corner even though today was supposed to be a fast day. I’d been lusting after these even since I...
30 Oct, 2015 | Uncategorised
It was so lovely to Facetime with the Boywonder for ages this evening. It’s becoming less stilted and much more easy going and free-flowing. (He’s looking much better than last week, by the way, though his cough still lingers. The mid-terms have gone...